Karen

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.2 Proper noun 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Pronunciation 1.2.2 Proper noun 1.2.3 External links 1.3 Etymology 3 1.3.1 Proper noun 1.4 Anagrams 2 Danish 2.1 Proper noun 3 Norwegian 3.1 Proper noun

[edit] English

Wikipedia

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From Danish Karen.

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• (UK) IPA: /ˈkaɹən/
• Rhymes: -ærən

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Singular Karen

Plural -

Karen

1. A female given name. First taken up as a given name in the U.S.A., and popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s.
   • 1878 Celia Thaxter, Drift-Weed, Houghton, Osgood,1878, page 28 ("Karen"):

     Left you a lover in that far land, / O Karen sad, that you pine so long! / Would I could unravel and understand / That sorrowful, sweet Norwegian song!

   • 1918 Cecily Ullman Sidgwick, Karen, W.Collins, 1918, page 12:

     I was not called Karen after Hans Andersen's dancing girl, but after a Danish friend of my mother's who married an Englishman and was my godmother. So much for our family affairs.

[edit] Etymology 2

From Burmese ကရင် (ka-reng), “‘wild, low-caste man’”).

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• (UK) IPA: /kəˈɹɛn/

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Singular Karen

Plural -

Karen

1. A group of languages of Myanmar and Thailand.

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Ethnologue report on the Karen languages

[edit] Etymology 3

[edit] Proper noun

Singular Karen

Plural -

Karen

1. A male given name, transliteration of the Armenian (Կարեն).

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aeknr
• anker
• naker

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[edit] Danish

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Karen

1. A female given name, a medieval variant of Katharina ( =Catherine).

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[edit] Norwegian

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Karen

1. A female given name of Danish origin.